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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 08:25:39 -0500
- From: "James J. Murawski" <jjm+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Subject: Re: RW Help! Can not print a tab
- In-Reply-To: <1993Jan28.160204.13488@waikato.ac.nz>
- References: <1993Jan28.160204.13488@waikato.ac.nz>
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- On 28-Jan-93 in RW Help! Can not print a tab
- user rgty_lds@waikato.ac.nz writes:
- >I know this is going to sound trivial but I can not get it to work.
- >
- >All I want to do is have a horizontal tab printed in a report-writer script.
- >
- >Any one got the solution ?
-
- Back last summer, the same question was asked here and Mark Jaeger of the
- University of Chicago posted a solution. I've had that solution squirreled
- away since then. Here was Mark's posting:
-
- >From: cs_mj@gsbacd.uchicago.edu (Mark Jaeger)
- >Subject: Re: Can Report Writer print the TAB character ?
- >Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 19:09:41 GMT
- >
- >In article <1992Aug6.142628.14098@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>,
- >>dwolfe@halcon.lerc.nasa.gov (Dana Wolfe) writes:
- >> I'd like to import some data into a Wingz spreadsheet as a text file.
- >> I need to delineate the columns with the tab character.
- >
- >Use the INGRES report writer with the q0 format. For example,
- >
- > .NAME ...
- > .QUERY select tab = char(x'09') , x , y , ...
- > ...
- > .HEADER REPORT
- > .FORMAT tab(q0)
- > ...
- > .DETAIL
- > .PLN x,tab,y,...
- >
- >--Mark Jaeger internet: cs_mj@gsbvax.uchicago.edu
- >Graduate School of Business yellnet: (312) 702-0328
- >University of Chicago faxnet: (312) 702-0233
- >Disclaimer: My opinions are my own and not those of my employer.
- >Ich bin ein Virus. Mach' mit und kopiere mich in Deine .signature.
-
- Note that I believe this only works in 6.4, since it didn't work for me in
- 6.3 at the time (we've since moved to 6.4).
-
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